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Mesoscale Discussion 862

May 24, 2023Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2023, 10:38 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2023, 10:38 PM MDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2023, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 236

Counties Roosevelt County, NM, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Roosevelt	56 min
May 24, 7:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Roosevelt	93 min
May 24, 8:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lea	6 hr
May 24, 9:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Roosevelt	113 min
May 25, 2:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Mora, Quay and 2 more	2 hr
May 25, 5:31 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Curry, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more	89 min
May 25, 1:26 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Cochran, Dawson, Garza, Hockley, Lynn and 2 more	2 hr
May 25, 1:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves	83 min
May 25, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves	6 hr
May 25, 4:49 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio	116 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2023 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2023 Every mesoscale discussion in 2023

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.